Ratcliffe-on-Soar
Ratcliffe-on-Soar, sometimes written Ratcliffe-upon-Soar or Radcliffe-on-Soar, is a village and civil parish in Nottinghamshire on the River Soar.
Ratcliffe-on-Soar, sometimes written Ratcliffe-upon-Soar or Radcliffe-on-Soar, is a village and civil parish in Nottinghamshire on the River Soar.
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Worth seeing in and around Ratcliffe-on-Soar
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Holy Trinity Church, Ratcliffe-on-Soar
Holy Trinity Church, Ratcliffe-on-Soar is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England in Ratcliffe-on-Soar. It is part of an informal grouping of five churches that are known collectively as "The 453 Churches" as they straddle the A453.
200 m · Grade I listed church in Ratcliffe-on-Soar, Nottinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02All Saints’ Church, Thrumpton
All Saints’ Church, Thrumpton is a Grade II* listed parish church in the Church of England in Thrumpton, Nottinghamshire. A stone font in the churchyard is Grade II listed.
2.7 km · church in Thrumpton, Nottinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Kingston Hall
Kingston Hall is a country house in Kingston on Soar, Nottinghamshire. It was built between 1842 and 1846 to designs by the architect Edward Blore for Edward Strutt, 1st Baron Belper.
1.4 km · country house in Nottinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04St. Helena's Church, West Leake
St Helena's Church, West Leake is a parish church in the Church of England in West Leake, Nottinghamshire. The church is Grade II* listed by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport as it is a particularly significant building of more than local interest.
3.9 km · church in West Leake, Nottinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05St. Winifred's Church, Kingston on Soar
The Church of St. Winifred is a church in Kingston on Soar, Nottinghamshire.
1.1 km · Grade I listed church in Kingston on Soar, Rushcliffe, Nottinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06Trent Lock
Trent Lock is located south of Long Eaton, on the borders of Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire in the United Kingdom. The area is a major canal navigation junction, where the River Soar and Erewash Canal can reach the Trent and Mersey Canal by way of the River Trent and adjacent Cranfleet Cut.
2.4 km · canal lock in Trent · Wikipedia - 07Trent Viaducts
Trent Viaducts are two adjacent parallel railway bridges which carry the Midland Main Line over the River Trent between Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire. Originally a single bridge, it was built by the engineer Charles Blacker Vignoles for the Midland Counties Railway in 1839.
2.2 km · bridge in United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 08Church of St Andrew
St Andrew's Church is a Grade II* listed Church of England church in Kegworth, Leicestershire.
2.2 km · church in North West Leicestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 09Lockington Marshes
Lockington Marshes is an 11.3-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north of Ratcliffe on Soar in Leicestershire. This site in the floodplains of the River Soar and River Trent has a periodically flooded meadow, pools and one of the largest areas of willow carr in the county.
1.4 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia - 10All Saints' Church, Sawley
All Saints’ Church, Sawley, is a Grade I listed parish church in Sawley, Derbyshire, England.
3.5 km · Grade I listed parish church in Sawley, Erewash, Derbyshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Ratcliffe-on-Soar
- Airports
- East Midlands (EMA), 5 km · Birmingham (BHX), 55 km · Manchester (MAN), 87 km
- Stations
- Long Eaton railway station, 3.8 km · Trent railway station, 3.3 km · East Midlands Parkway railway station, 900 m · East Midlands Gateway, 3.3 km
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Ratcliffe-on-Soar60 km · quickest by road, 1h 14m · £6–8
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Ratcliffe-on-Soar95 km · quickest by road, 2h 42m · £13–17
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Ratcliffe-on-Soar106 km · quickest by road, 2h 11m · £12–15
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No local-transport research exists yet for Ratcliffe-on-Soar
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Ratcliffe-on-Soar. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThe airport mainly supports low-cost airlines such as Jet2.com, Ryanair and tour operators like Thomson Airways which serve a range of domestic and European short-haul destinations.
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Next door to Ratcliffe-on-Soar
Ratcliffe-on-Soar is 13 km from Nottingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Sawleyvillage and civil parish in Erewash District, Derbyshire, England3.3 km
- Kegworthvillage in Kegworth parish, United Kingdom2.3 km
- Kingston on Soarvillage and civil parish in the Rushcliffe borough of Nottinghamshire, England1.2 km
- Thrumptonvillage in Nottinghamshire, England, UK2.4 km
- Sutton Boningtonvillage and civil parish in Nottinghamshire, England, UK3.9 km
- West Leakevillage in Nottinghamshire, England, UK3.7 km